Ashby
Base Pay Range
$200,000.00/yr - $275,000.00/yr
Position Overview Hi , I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co‑Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for a great (former) engineer who built impressive products and now builds teams of great engineers. Ashby’s success and ambition mean we’re doubling the Engineering team in the next year, and we need your experience and leadership to do it thoughtfully. Our product and growth are exceptional. Ashby All‑in‑One is powerful, easy to use, and replaces several venture‑backed companies’ worth of products (often with a better experience). We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway.
Our culture is built around enabling exceptional engineers. We ditch many industry norms and give engineers freedom, agency, and the opportunity to write product specs, make product decisions, and not break down projects into individual tickets. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll work closely with me, Colin, and your peers to build out the team and continue scaling this unique culture.
Leadership Responsibilities
Providing feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones.
Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention.
Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up‑to‑date while staying off the critical path.
Initiatives & Projects
Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal on what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the space to give useful feedback.
Design and improve interviews based on candidate and team feedback. We pride ourselves on thoughtful interviews that simulate actually working with us.
Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up‑to‑date on our codebase while impacting the business from Engineering to QA to Sales.
What We’re Building At Ashby, we built and continue to build the highest standard of tooling for Talent Acquisition (TA) teams. Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality, and do it with half the headcount. Existing TA software held them back. As hiring managers, we know TA is a critical function, and as engineers, we know software can do better. So we built Ashby: intelligent, powerful software that provides insights into where teams are failing, automates, and simplifies tasks. Our goal is for other functions and departments to envy what TA teams can do with Ashby.
Engineering Culture
Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.
Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.
Putting effort into building a diverse team.
We’re motivated by the belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high‑quality software fast and work regular hours. Engineers run their projects and take ownership. Product Managers and Designers build strategy, research, and hand off briefs. Engineers back it up end‑to‑end. We push information outward and pull folks in when needed. We encourage failure and coach up skills.
Interview Process
Introduction call with me (30m, live).
A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live).
An interview to explore your past experience as a leader (1h, live).
Interview with Colin, our Head of EMEA Engineering (45m, live).
Interview with Benji, our CEO (30m, live).
Final round where you meet Engineers and other Engineering Managers (90m, live).
Depending on my bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter. Near the end of the process, we’ll do reference checks.
Your First Six Months Your first three months at Ashby will be spent learning about Ashby Engineering and easing into leadership. While most of your onboarding will be driven by a 6‑month plan you put together (and refine over time), you’ll also ship some product changes and features. You’ll get to see how ICs work by being one! Don’t worry if you don’t know our technologies. The team is helpful and the dev environment sets up in a single script. You’ll be able to push your first product change on day one. We will do 30‑day, 60‑day, 90‑day, and 6‑month reviews to calibrate on our unique culture and how we’ll work together.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10‑year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO.
A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
Top‑tier health insurance for US users, covered 100%; in other countries, high‑quality supplemental insurance fully covered.
Equal Employment Opportunity Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type Full-time
Job Function Engineering and Information Technology, Software Development
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Position Overview Hi , I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co‑Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for a great (former) engineer who built impressive products and now builds teams of great engineers. Ashby’s success and ambition mean we’re doubling the Engineering team in the next year, and we need your experience and leadership to do it thoughtfully. Our product and growth are exceptional. Ashby All‑in‑One is powerful, easy to use, and replaces several venture‑backed companies’ worth of products (often with a better experience). We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best‑in‑class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway.
Our culture is built around enabling exceptional engineers. We ditch many industry norms and give engineers freedom, agency, and the opportunity to write product specs, make product decisions, and not break down projects into individual tickets. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll work closely with me, Colin, and your peers to build out the team and continue scaling this unique culture.
Leadership Responsibilities
Providing feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones.
Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention.
Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up‑to‑date while staying off the critical path.
Initiatives & Projects
Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal on what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the space to give useful feedback.
Design and improve interviews based on candidate and team feedback. We pride ourselves on thoughtful interviews that simulate actually working with us.
Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up‑to‑date on our codebase while impacting the business from Engineering to QA to Sales.
What We’re Building At Ashby, we built and continue to build the highest standard of tooling for Talent Acquisition (TA) teams. Recruiting teams wanted to schedule candidates faster, track interviewer preparation and quality, and do it with half the headcount. Existing TA software held them back. As hiring managers, we know TA is a critical function, and as engineers, we know software can do better. So we built Ashby: intelligent, powerful software that provides insights into where teams are failing, automates, and simplifies tasks. Our goal is for other functions and departments to envy what TA teams can do with Ashby.
Engineering Culture
Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design.
Natural collaboration and deliberate communication.
Investing in tools and abstractions that give us leverage.
Putting effort into building a diverse team.
We’re motivated by the belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high‑quality software fast and work regular hours. Engineers run their projects and take ownership. Product Managers and Designers build strategy, research, and hand off briefs. Engineers back it up end‑to‑end. We push information outward and pull folks in when needed. We encourage failure and coach up skills.
Interview Process
Introduction call with me (30m, live).
A technical screen where we pair in our actual codebase (1h, live).
An interview to explore your past experience as a leader (1h, live).
Interview with Colin, our Head of EMEA Engineering (45m, live).
Interview with Benji, our CEO (30m, live).
Final round where you meet Engineers and other Engineering Managers (90m, live).
Depending on my bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter. Near the end of the process, we’ll do reference checks.
Your First Six Months Your first three months at Ashby will be spent learning about Ashby Engineering and easing into leadership. While most of your onboarding will be driven by a 6‑month plan you put together (and refine over time), you’ll also ship some product changes and features. You’ll get to see how ICs work by being one! Don’t worry if you don’t know our technologies. The team is helpful and the dev environment sets up in a single script. You’ll be able to push your first product change on day one. We will do 30‑day, 60‑day, 90‑day, and 6‑month reviews to calibrate on our unique culture and how we’ll work together.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity.
10‑year exercise window for stock options.
Unlimited PTO.
A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.
Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
$100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
Top‑tier health insurance for US users, covered 100%; in other countries, high‑quality supplemental insurance fully covered.
Equal Employment Opportunity Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.
Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type Full-time
Job Function Engineering and Information Technology, Software Development
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